This Week In Law 186: Winners and Illusors

Panel

"Derigan Silver is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver, where he is the director of the joint MA/JD program. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the First Amendment, media law, Internet law, political communication and communication and society. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on access to government information, defamation, social architecture theory and judicial decision making. His first book, National Security in the Courts: The Need for Secrecy vs. the Requirement of Transparency, was released this year."

"Jon is an award-winning reporter who joined Ars Technica in 2011, and covers a wide array of IT topics. Jon previously scooped for IDG's Network World for 5 years, where he began his obsessions with Microsoft, Google, cloud computing, virtualization, data centers, and much more. Jon hails from Boston University, where he studied journalism and literature, before spending the start of his career writing about government, the environment, and medical technology for the Sentinel & Enterprise and the MetroWest Daily News (Massachusetts)."